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I have filled 3 Mead notebooks trying to figure out whether it was Them or Just Me.
David Foster Wallace
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David Foster Wallace
Age: 45 †
Born: 1962
Born: February 21
Died: 2008
Died: February 12
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What if sometimes there is no choice about what to love? What if the temple comes to Mohammed? What if you just love? without deciding? You just do: you see her and in that instant are lost to sober account-keeping and cannot choose but to love?
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The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush.
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Do this: hate him for me after I die. I beg you. Dying request.
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